Word Meanings - LITERALTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The state or quality of being literal.

• Belletristic
  Alt. of Belletristical
• Bevy
  A company; an assembly or collection of persons, especially of ladies.
• Bedding
  of Bed
• Benedictional
  A book of benedictions.
• BEDEGUARBEDEGAR
  A gall produced on rosebushes, esp. on the sweetbrier or eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly (Rhodites rosæ). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties.
• Beem
  A trumpet.
• Bergamot
  A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume. Also, the fruit.
• Behavior
  Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle.
• Bespatter
  To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains.
• Bestraddle
  To bestride.
• Bearberry
  A trailing plant of the heath family (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries of which bears are said to be fond.
• Bell jar
  A glass vessel, varying in size, open at the bottom and closed at the top like a bell, and having a knob or handle at the top for lifting it. It is used for a great variety of purposes; as, with the air pump, and for holding gases, also for keepin
• Bewigged
  of Bewig
• Bedbug
  A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
• Beneficently
  In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.
• BEETRADISH
  Same as Beetrave.
• Beetle brow
  An overhanging brow.
• Berm
  Alt. of Berme
• Beholden
  of Behold
• Bespitting
  of Bespit

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